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Lacto-fermented sodas

Lacto-fermented sodas

I've made old-fashioned ginger beer, and root beer using champagne yeast, but I'd never heard of bacterially fermented soda. Does anyone on the TFL make it? If so, can you point me at your favorite websites, or recipes. I want to try this, especially when peaches from our northern neighbor, Georgia, ripen.

I've made beer using my sourdough starter as a source of yeast, the bacteria eventually give it a slight twang. Kvass would be a traditionally lacto-fermented soda which you can make with your sourdough starter. Also ginger beer made with a real ginger "plant" which is similar to a kombucha SCOBY.

I'm sure the resulting fermented beverage is reasonably safe to consume, but my typical USA upbringing sez, "I'm drinking some strangers' spit". I looked for Westernized recipes, found a few, but also found this site among them.

My only concern with a lot of these soda recipes is that they use glass bottles or jars for storage. This could lead to what we affectionately call bottle bombs in homebrewing unless you're really careful about monitoring the carbonation level. It'd be safer to reuse a food grade plastic bottle, or if you're really serious to buy a kegging setup for ~200+a small fridge.

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